Maitreya
Published
I have tried other distros and there the game was running about 5% slower than on windows. Now that I'm back on PikaOS, the game runs just as well. I expect it's because of falcond (automatic gamemode) Playing on Hyprland in borderless or full screen mode and its a blast. With my hardware I can either go medium seeings without any upscaling or high settings with some upscaling. If your monitor supports VRR, do enable Frame Generation, as the implementation here is really good and it seems like it was designed to be run with Frame Gen. Then even highest or ultra settings aren't an issue, except maybe RayTracing although that won't be an issue on NVIDIA cards.
Overall it runs really smooth, especially when enabling bpfland as a scheduler. Have fun!
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Zergs work just as well / bad as on Windows. Depends on how you look at it :D
First I tried the game on Mint stable with 5.5 kernel and 23.3 mesa, ProtonExperimental. There were a lot of stutters of a couple seconds each. After I learned how to get a newer kernel, mesa and ProtonGE, the game runs extremely well, I'm very happy and I see no reason why I would play it on windows. I haven't run any benchmarks, but sometimes I think its running even better, but that might be wishful thinking.
mangohud %command%
I'm new to Linux gaming and have done some serious distro hopping lately. Started with Mint, but using a stable kernel and standard proton I had some frame drops in the 30-40 range, while most of the times it was running between 60 and 70 fps with my hardware. Fine, but since I'm getting 60-80 on windows I wanted to try harder. Went to CachyOS and there it was running really well, but updating the system was too much me as I'm just starting with linux. Found OpenSUSE Tumbleweed and its really nice for me. I have almost the latest MESA and am using ProtonGE 9-2 and its running really smoothly, but not quite as high fps as under CachyOS out of the box. Though I'm sure once I figure out how to add some more system improvements, it'll be even better.
gamemoderun %command%
I've tested the game on Arch, Fedora, OpenSUSE and Ubuntu based distros. The audio issues only happened to me on Fedora and slightly on OpenSUSE. You can fix them by changing the pipewire.conf and set the value default.clock.min-quantum = 1024. Remove the # at the start. Don't remove it for the max value though, that made it worse for me.
By default the game didn't utilize my hardware completely, it was lagging behind at like 80% utilization. Found a reddit post with these changes that fixed the issue for me: Create
/etc/udev/rules.d/30-amdgpu.rules
with this content
KERNEL=="card1", SUBSYSTEM=="drm", DRIVERS=="amdgpu", ATTR{device/power_dpm_force_performance_level}="manual", ATTR{device/pp_power_profile_mode}="1"
and then reloaded the rule by executing
sudo udevadm trigger --name-match=/dev/dri/card1
I imagine that users with different hardware don't need to tinker. Especially now that NVIDIA works with Wayland. Now that the audio crackling and performance issues have been fixed, it plays wonderfully on my machine. I also tested it on Windows. On Linux I'm not getting the same highest fps, but also less frame drops, so it now also runs smoother.
With some time I believe that all games will be running like that on Linux and I'm all for it.
falcon
Thanks to JonioN!! I also had the random slowdowns which completely resolved by disabling the EA Overlay. Go to:
~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/1237950/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/AppData/Local/Electronic Arts/EA Desktop/user_[Number].ini and add the line
user.igoenabled=0
there.
Done! Game runs smooth af now.
See above, occasional slowdowns resolved by disabling EA overlay
I think the EA Overlay only affects AMDGPU users. Once disabled, the game runs extremely well on Linux.
Apart from the game being a performance hog, the game runs at least as smooth on Linux as on Windows
There was nothing to do. The game starts up perfectly. I always play with Proton Experimental (bleeding-edge), especially for new games like these. Runs very well overall for what my hardware can achieve in this game. Looking forward to re-experience Oblivion so many years later.
